Show Summary

The show opens up with Adam discussing his weekend at Laguna Seca. He complains about girls never going out of their way to help, and listens to an NPR clip about shampooing not being as important as you think. Adam also rants about a phoner series he had to do on his drive up, which was a disaster on all fronts.

In the next part of the show, Dr. Bruce reads some stories for this week’s Healthwatch. Stories include the benefits of drinking beer, how to lose weight, and the importance of your virtual Avatar. Adam also laughs about a Miss America clip, and rants about flavored coffees. Later the guys take a couple health calls from listeners.

In the last part of the show, Alison jumps into the news. The guys review the results of the Golden Globes, and Alison talks about the cruise that capsized off the coast of Italy. As the show wraps up, the guys talk about a Martin Luther King Jr. quote, Heather Locklear’s health status, and the latest Dr. Drew project.

It amazes me that Adam fails to see the similarity between his troubles with the radio phone ins and the Ann Coulter call that they bring up constantly, any time they want to slam on her. I love the podcast Adam, but you are a hypocrite.

You have a point. I think the Ann Coulter call was one of those immovable object meets irresistible force kinda deals. But I’m glad he hung up on her. I’m a conservative but she is a nasty woman in all ways but the right one.

Is anyone else having issues with the iPhone app not keeping your playback position after you stop listening for a while? If I stop the show, then start it up again later, the playback jumps back to a previous position.

Carolla’s rant was basically a minutes-long admission that he’s stupid. He had literally no inkling that “Alisyn” could possibly be pronounced “Alison”? A guy whose sister spells her name “Lauryn” could not fathom an ending “y-n” being pronounced any way other than “ine” or “een”?

Alison was immediately able to discern the correct pronunciation only because she’s an Alison herself? What about the entire listening audience that figured it out in one try, as well?

Alternate spellings of traditional names are obnoxious, but let’s not pretend this was some kind of indecipherable code that would’ve had cryptographers flummoxed, as opposed to a guy being borderline-illiterate

Last time Dr. Bruce was on, he mentioned something about “sexual annorexia” and conditioning from internet pornography. Adam ranted over top of him before he really spoke about it. Where can we find some info on that? I have been *ruined* by internet porn, and would be interested in hearing more!

I’m usually a really big Carolla fan, but this ep was nigh unlistenable. Not a single one of his rants today really captured that combination of dry humor and social criticism that kind of defines his style. He just came across as stupid and angry. It almost felt like listening to Tom Leykis. Sorry, Aceman, you gotta pick up your game.

Boo on the Alisign vs Aliscene just because there was a “y” in Alisyn rant. What a dope Adam was for getting all worked over something so insignificant. I bet the real story was he knew the name was a misspelled version of Allison, but he went to the other pronunciations to make a point. Unfortunately the barely interested dimwit on the other end did not buy into Adam’s obsession, which, further infuriated him. The whole rant was neither interesting or funny; people spell their names stupidly, end of story.

“People” do not spell their names stupidly, parents spell the names of their children stupidly, as Alison (see spelling) so wisely pointed out. Adam’s inability to decipher this particular silly spelling of Allison/Alison/Allyson/Allisyn just proves how awful it must be to spend “quality” time with him. Love the show!

Adam lives in Las Angeles and this is a large part of the explanation for ‘Alysseeen, Allisign?’ because (as he pointed out) there is not only the problem of douchebagging the spelling of names like Karyn, Shyla, Brendyn, Tomyss Tami, Mikaylah, Berigheirgheihlieah etc…. but ALSO how so many need it to be pronounced in some clever new way. Think of the old Kids and the Hall Darryl. “Uhh… Its ‘Dah-Rill'”. I don’t doubt for a minute there ARE Allisyns in LA who DO want you to pronounce it ‘Alliseen’. Adam is right on the money – this is one of the most annoying damn things.

Thank god you’re here to explain it to us, because we haven’t heard that exact rant from Adam twenty times before.

The point people are making is that if someone has an unconventional spelling in their name, you should probably pronounce it like the common name it resembles. If you hear hoofbeats, assume it’s horses and not zebras. Sure, Allisyn could be “Alliseen,” but how about using a little common sense and assuming it’s a variation of Allison. Or, if common sense fails you, sound it out phonetically. But Adam was inserting vowel sounds that had no business being there in defiance of both common sense and phonetics, then getting angry when he wasn’t understood. That’s why his argument was stupid.

Six, and thank goodness you repeated the same argument everyone else did. It’s good you know the rules and it’s surely because you are younger than Adam and familiar with the etiquette in attempting the new douchebag spellings and what to do if and when you come across one – however – YOU have made the common sense error and stupid argument here. The actual complaint is that when YOU hear someone pronouncing it wrong “Allisign..Alliseen?’ then YOU should use YOUR COMMON SENSE to figure out that the person is probably over 40 and confused by Allisyn, maybe they think its a typo, or they can’t read it, or they don’t know your rules about ‘phonetic attempt first’ but whatever the case THEY ARE PROBABLY PHONING FOR ALLISON SPELLED WITH a Y. Especially YOU should figure that out since you work with Allisyn and you know.. D’errrrrrrrr! BTW: I deal with this constantly since my name is ‘obviously common sense’ in my part of the world it is somehow baffling to Germans and half the people in LA. When they pronounce the ‘K’ (which is silent) I don’t sit there going ‘WOW… Who is that derrrrr… they must think im someone else derrrrrr… its not my name with a K sound derrrrr stupid person derrrrr”.

wow, i remember about 8 years ago on loveline (cuz im a long time listener) adam said the same thing about blazing saddles when dr. drew said somthing about rameron…. does any remember that besides me? do u remember ad’Ym???

This episode wasn’t bad, but sometimes Carolla can be annoying. When Bruce is trying to answer the guy’s question and Adam is asking him a completely unrelated question he doesn’t care about, and then yells at him for trying to answer the question. Also when Adam says something that is wrong, and then gets mad when someone doesn’t agree with him, or as he says “shits on his point.” You are wrong as much as anyone Carolla, so stop getting mad when people point it out. Plus the rant about the name was terrible. I’ve never seen it spelled that way, but when he first spelled it out it was obvious the name was Allison. How about you just pronounce it that way and let them cry about it if they want.

I agree wholeheartedly Matt, Adam ran roughshod over Bruce in this episode, more so than in most and it was grating: really physically uncomfortable for me to listen to. I’ve listened to 100+ episodes and haven’t winced more than I did during this episode. If it was a guest Adam was shitting on, then I could probably accept that. But Bruce is a friend of the show and of Adam personally; he clearly busted his ass to do a lot of research for his segment, which was all for naught since you couldn’t hear any of it over Adam’s ranting (most of which was unrelated as well.)

Bruce coming on the show offers the opportunity for educational content. But if he’s going to be continually drowned out it doesn’t much matter. Also, he shouldn’t be criticized relentlessly because he takes a while to start speaking. Adam doesn’t realize that his quick-tongue is unmatched by the vast majority of people. Bruce is deliberate about what he says as he needs it to be medically accurate. Adam doesn’t need to do this and thus should stop his harassment. It’s simple really: if Adam doesn’t want to let Bruce talk, he shouldn’t have him on the show. It’s deceiving for the audience who expects to actually hear him.

I call bullshit on Adam’s “Allisyn” rant. Seriously, he repeated the name to the receptionist that many times, struggled for so long, and did not even think to pronounce it “Allison” even once during his efforts? Hmm. And in the woman’s defense, if you’re pronouncing it “All-ee-seen or All-e-sign” It starts to sound middle eastern or hebrew. I can understand how you’d have no idea who he was asking for. Adam your rants are usually A+’s….this gets a D.

In other news, Adam is always so rude to Dr. Bruce… why can’t he let him get one full sentence in…ever?

Re: Alisyn
I whole heatedly embrace the rant on names. The made up names or unique spellings serve what purpose? New names I have encountered: Nevaeh, Nevik…c’mom, really? I once dated an Allison even going so far as to deface my copy of ‘My Aim is True’ just to take a side. But that is as far as i will go. My name is Ian and not Ion.

I know Adam will never read this BUT for fucks sakes, when you do this whole bit of being a dick to Dr Bruce you might as well bite fucken Mencia irritable duddudu bit. I love your show and have been listening to you since the 90’s but shit man why the fuck must you shit on a guy that is willing to lend his time to your show? You fucking complain all the goddamn time about retarded morning shock jocks yet you lend yourself to the same practice. If this guy always bothers you with his presence than why the fuck do you keep bringing him back? WTF?? Just to show your audience how much of a dick you can be to a guy that will never interrupt the taping by just punching you in the face and scream you know what fuck you asshole why do you keep inviting me back just so you can be a dick to me??